No one can always be right. We are all human and we all make mistakes; even the egg-heads at EA Sports who year-in-year-out bring us the best football simulation game on the market. In a sport that inspires so much passionate support worldwide, it’s inevitable that one of the most vehemently debated areas in each year’s instalment of Fifa is what the developers choose to give the players for their rating.

Each year Ronaldo’s devout supporters will belly-ache about how he should be Messi’s equal (or more,) Neymar nuts will moan about why he isn’t faster than Theo Walcott and trolls will argue that Emile Heskey should have a rating of 93. Some people can’t be right at all.

Every year a contingent of players on FIFA will stand out as having been given an unfair rating – whether it is overly generous or under-stated, and this year is no different. This is the reason EA release a patch in January to amend these questionable player ratings based on recent form, though EA do seem to only update players positively as a general rule.

Here we take a look at the 10 Overrated Players Desperately Deserving of a Downgrade…

Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.

Villa shouldn’t be reduced. Rather, Costa should be upgraded.
Mario Gomez should keep his rating. Only reason Bayern let him go is because he’s the kind of striker who doesn’t track back and get into build-up play.

He does what he does best and that is score goals. Who cares if a striker tracks back or not? Ronaldo and a host of other forwards don’t. 80? Gomez has been scoring over 40 goals in previous seasons. He’s just had a few injury problems in recent times.

You seriously think downgrading him from 86 to 80 is the right ting? WOW!
The thing is, you don’t know whether he deserves it or not. How often has he played this season? Exactly. So you can’t tell if he’ll be as good or worse.

Jovetic – Injured so he deserves a downgrading due to not playing for City?
Villa – Having a great season, but because he doesn’t score as many as Costa he should be downgraded?
Casillas – ‘Fall from grace’ is nothing to do with ability. Still one of the best keepers in the world.
Gomez – Still a lethal finisher. His stats are all where they should be.
Lamela – Just because he’s not being used at Tottenham doesn’t mean he deserves a downgrade. The amount of goals/assists he got in Serie A last year shows how good he is. Not being played for Spurs doesn’t show anything about his ‘ability’

How do you know if casillas is still the best in the world if he hasn’t played top level for so long. I agree with the picks here. Jovetic+Gomez don’t play so u can assume the guys being started above them are superiior

Maybe I’m missing something, but many of the ratings you mention here Sam, don;t match up with their in game rating. You mention Young as an 80, when he clearly is an 82. Others like Pique and Gomez you say are 85’s when they are 86’s. You even have Eto’o as an 83 in your article, yet his card quite plainly states 84. Know something the rest of us don’t?